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George Edward Holderness (5 March 1913 – 21 October 1987) was an Anglican bishop.

He was born in 1913 and educated at Leeds Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford.^[1] Ordained in 1936, he began his career with a curacy at Bedale and was then Chaplain at Aysgarth School until 1947, a period interrupted by World War II service as a Chaplain to the Forces. He was then Vicar of St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington and for 15 years suffragan Bishop of Burnley^[2]^[3] in the Diocese of Blackburn.^[4] In 1970 he left Burnley to become Dean of Lichfield, a post he held to retirement in 1979. He died in 1987.

References

^ Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
^ "A short guide and history to Burnley Parish Church of St.Peter" Holderness, G.A: 1961, Gloucester, British Publishing Company
^ "Ecclesiastical News Consecration Of Two Bishops." The Times Thursday, Feb 03, 1955; pg. 4; Issue 53156; col C
^ National Archives Detail

Church of England titles
Preceded by Charles Keith Kipling Prosser	Bishop of Burnley 1955 –1970	Succeeded by Richard Charles Challinor Watson
Preceded by William Stuart MacPherson	Dean of Lichfield 1970 –1979	Succeeded by John Harley Lang

v t e Bishops of Burnley
Edwyn Hoskyns Alfred Pearson Henry Henn Edgar Priestley Swain Keith Prosser George Holderness Richard Watson Ronald Milner Martyn Jarrett John Goddard Philip North Joe Kennedy

v t e Deans of Lichfield
Medieval	Stephen Seagrave Roger de Convenis John Garssia Richard FitzRalph John of Thoresby Simon de Brisele John Bokyngham William de Manton Laurence de Ibstock Anthony Rous Francis de Teobaldeschi William Pakington Thomas de Stretton Robert Wolveden John Verney Thomas Heywood
Early modern	John Yotton Ralph Colyngwood James Denton Richard Sampson Henry Williams John Ramridge Laurence Nowell George Boleyn James Montague William Tooker Walter Curle Augustine Lindsell John Warner Samuel Fell Griffin Higgs William Paul Thomas Wood Matthew Smallwood Lancelot Addison William Binckes Jonathan Kimberley William Walmesley Nicholas Penny John Addenbrooke Baptist Proby
Late modern	John Woodhouse Henry Howard Weldon Champneys Edward Bickersteth Herbert Mortimer Luckock Henry Savage Frederic Iremonger William MacPherson George Holderness John Lang Tom Wright Michael Yorke Adrian Dorber Pete Wilcox (Acting) Jan McFarlane

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